Happy New Year 2024 (and sorry for the forum being offline some hours) /DM
Life is coming back with respect to Fram export
My October PIOMAS plots are available at http://sites.uci.edu/zlabe/arctic-sea-ice-volumethickness/.
“It has been assumed by the scientific community that CryoSat-2 can accurately measure the sea ice freeboard, which is the ice we can see above sea level,” says Nandan. “But that ice is covered in snow and the snow is salty close to where the sea ice surface is. The problem is, microwave measurements from satellites don’t penetrate the salty snow very well, so the satellite is not measuring the proper sea ice freeboard and the satellite readings overestimate the thickness of the ice.”
Univ of Calgary Study indicates that Cryosat-2 has overestimated thickiness of first-year sea ice by as much as 25% due to salinity content of upper layers.
Thickness map for 30 November 2017, compared with previous years.
thick MYI drifts to the Beaufort sea ... Inner Basin already has got plenty of strong ice so that I'm confident no disaster
Volume and volume anomaly graphs.
"The 2017/18 Festive Season in the Arctic"
Interestingly, the main volume in the CAB is drifting "westwards", which gives hope that the thick ice could be more protected from export this year.
Why does 2015/16 suddenly stop in January on the Area and Extent graphs?
Jan 2018 update with Dec 2017 Arctic #seaice thickness. Continued slow ice growth with lowest observed Oct-Dec volume gain so far.
It seems you need to click, even with size less than 700x700